| Front | Supercilious (adjective) |
|---|---|
| Back | Feeling or showing haughty disdain; displaying arrogant pride, even scorn. Supercilious often describes people or facial expressions. Wonderfully vivid and descriptive synonyms and related words for supercilious are legion in English, including arrogant, uppity, haughty, pompous, priggish, pretentious, prideful, patronizing, disdainful, condescending, swaggering, lofty, lordly, high and mighty, highfalutin, sniffy, snooty, and snotty. "a supercilious lady's maid" |
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